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MACON .TUESDAY, MARCH 29 1870.
YOL LXIV.-NO. 32
of Zion—1*0. 2.—The Captivity*
(u concert with chcquitta.)
tu tflnM H&nd, I touch my trembling lyre,
rrrtf imbued it with celestial fire,
nnprwticed in the sacred trilling art,
QjgjorJant notes, which make tho skillful
FROM WASHINGTON.
One or the Busy B.s—Revels Debnt in
the Senate—Morton’s Felicitations
—Bullockites and Bryantites.
■tut;
lotes to winder thro’ each woodland glado
g** (bjrminR things an unseen Hand hath
®»btn jt (ta no longer be Dame Nature’s
bird, doth sing itself to rest.
I
I hfuesth that tree, did sleep with folded
tag,
t ntiog dream, of which it fain would sing;
f dreamed “tho wheel of time,” had backward
r^ipwe
t «e might catch & glimpse of Judah’s ancient
net,
t > wandered down tho vista dim of ages,
Eiii beeido tho streams, where dwelt the ancient
■ages;
I close beeido thoso sad, “forsaken ones,” wo
(jtpt,
tlD g their harps upon thoso weepingtrees and
I UP 1,
L ibtn thoso captors stern, who did them so
T s nch wrong
rjti that they should cheer their tyrant hearts
Ifith King;
’ they could not touch, for such a cruel band,
' on ejjch they played in their beloved lan A
r iieUl9 we ro full of grief, too much they felt
the charge,
L amid not sing those songs within “aland eo
I etiange,
l Hill there was a hand—I saw it in m7 dream—
LtielttbeiMpirution of the mournful theme.
1 ■ gtntlehand, as fair as mother Eve’s,
Ctonchtd those trembling cords beneath those
[dripping JearM.
I tearful mum rang out thoso Ungers that were
| Sung,
, tfcw forsaken harps, that “long neglected
Dg.”
captirea wailinga” were tho key notes of my
i in concert sang with
‘murmurs of the
I rJiowi kept good time, by swaying to, and
(ho;
1 Z-phyrs thro’ them sighed as if oppressed with
■tie.
Itba •‘Chiquitta” played a solo on her lnte,
U floated on the breeze like notes of fairies
(fete.
le captive harpers then—both old and young in
A j in the stream, wero smiling thro’ their
Hand gladsome echo thro' the woodlands rung,
Ibe the raptures of the Restoration snug,
Inst, and I were so enamoured with the
I ‘•song,’’
kwhea those sounds had ceased we did the strain
| prolong.
(to be continued.)
A’tjt Hilt, Macon, March 18Ih
Lexobe.
Stabiit Mater.
s folloving is a recent translation of one of
Igrindest hymns of the Catholic Ritual.
broken hearted, lo! and tearful,
Bjweii beside that Cross so fearful,
Stands the Mother by the Son!
Through her bosom, sympathizing
In His mortal agonizing,
Deep and keen tho steel has gone.
How afflicted, bow distressed,
Stands she now, that Virgin blessed,
By that tree of wo and scorn!
Mark her tremble, droop and languish,
Gazmg on that awful anguish
Or her Child, the Only-Bora!
m.
Who may see, nor share her weeping,
ChrUt the Saviour’s Mother keeping
Grier* wild watch, so ead and lone ?
Who behold her bosom sharing
Every pang Ilia soul is bearing,
Kor receive them in bis own ?
Tansom for a world's offending,
L>. her Son and God is bending
That dear bead to wounds and blows ;
’Mid the body’s laceration,
As his life blood darkly flows,
v.
Fount of lovo. in this dread hour,
Teach ma all thy sorrow’s power.
Bid me share its grievous load:
O'er thy heart thy spirit pouring,
“■1 it barn in meet adoring
Of it* martyred Christ and God 1
Bs av piayer, O Mother, granted,
Arf within my heart implanted
Every gaah whoso crimson tide
that spotless victim streaming,
wigne to flow for my redeeming,
Mother of the Crucified!
vn.
Every sigh of thy affliction—
Every pang of crucifixion—
Teach me all their agony!
•it His cross forever bending,
to thy grief forever blending,
Mother, let mo live and die.
vm.
Firgin, of all virgins highest,
Humble prayer who ne’er deniest.
Teach me how to share thy woe!
AH Christ’s rassion’s-depth revealing,
Qjieken every quivering feeling,
All its bitterness to know!
ix.
Bid mo drink that heavenly madness,
Mingled bliss of grief and gladness.
Of the Cross or thy dear Son!
With His love my son! inflaming,
Kud for it, oh. Virgin, claiming
Mercy at His judgment throne'.
§*lter at that Cross, oh yield me,
“Jibedeath cf Christ, on shield me.
Comfort with thy grace and aid!
oh. Mother, bid my spirit
h* of Baradiso inherit,
"Benits clay to rest is laid!
I for the Telegraph and Hesgsenre.
k Blind,
r^n voyage!" said I smilingly.
'bowed he o’er my hand and went away;
inot
“Sow the little heart that broke that day
For him.
•*e the mist that gathered in my eye.
^*rcame, and ordering horses fleet,
!*** through woodland aud by mountain bigh,
11 the meadows where tho cowslip fresh and
•veet,
•^the bright brooklet singing “he would die
For her.”
, ***** cared I for tho snmmer skies ?
7** the cowslip and the brook might say ?
A dered At my strange abstract replies—
hoart had gone the other way
With him.
this, long after ho was gone,
juesd had asked him what he thought of me;
charming—but she’s heartless as a
•tout'. - ’
116 89 v <ry blind, e’en when they see
Plainest.
_ Ioxz.
***
t se North State.-
- The Raleigh
*»5s the negroes are still leaving the
( r °hhd Greensboro for more Southern
Washington, March 1G, 1770.
Editors Tdegmph and Messenger: Cspt.
Bryant is aB industrious as a beaver. Ho has
ho newspaper organ here, and has to put forth
his views in pamphlet form for circulation
among members of Congress and others. At
every turn or phase of the Georgia question
Bryant is ready with a neatly printed pamphlet
They fall upon Congressional desks like sun
flashes upon a river,
“A moment seen, then gone forever.”
I have now before me five pamphlets, all is
sued within a day or two. The first is entitled
“The Union Record of Hon. Joshua Hill, of
Georgia—A Letter in Reply to his Enemies."
This is a letter published by Mr. Hill in 18CG,
and now republished by Bryant, ‘-without the
knowledge of Mr. Hill.’’
Next we have “A letter to tho Hon. Charles
Sumner, of the United States Senate—Attempt
to Defeat tho Bingham Amendment.” In this
pamphlet Mr. Bryant sets forth his record as
Union man, a Republican, editor of Republican
papers, etc. Under the caption of “Villainy
Exposed,” he says Bullock has appointed ex
rebels aud Democrats to ofiice; that he wanted
to get control of the Legislature for selfish pur
poses—“that he might cover np financial opera
tions and elect Foster Blodgett to the United
States Senate.” The statement of Mr. Angier
concerning Bollock’s financi? operations is
then introduced, and is followed by an account
of the attempt to elect Foster Blodgett to the
United States Senate in 1867, and a history of
tho Blodgett perj ary case. The pamphlet con
cludes with a review of tho reasons why Bul
lock & Co. desire to defeat the Bingham amend
ment to the Georgia bill, in which various
Blodgett and Bullock tricks, such as manufac
turing telegrams and memorials to order, are
exposed. Mr. Bryant closes as follows:
“Actuated by the same feelings which caused
mo to risk my risk life on the battle-field, I am
now willing to sacrifice everything in this at
tempt to save my adopted State from these des
perate and reckless men.”
The third pamphlet is entitled “An Appeal
to Republican Senators by Wealthy and Influ
ential Republican Leaders of Georgia.” It con
tains copies of dispatches received by Bryant
and Bowles from Messrs. Austell, Wm. Mark
ham, T. P. Saffold, A. G. Foster and A. J. Wil
liams, urging upon Senators the prompt passage
of the Georgia Bill, with Bingham’s Amend
ment, as a means of bringing peace and
strengthening tho Republican party. The tele
grams are followed by sketches of tho character
and political recards of these gentlemen.
The fourth pamphlet, “Gov. Bullock and tho
Democratic press ot Georgia,” contains a spe
cial dispatch from Forney’s Chronicle, giving
an editorial from the Atlanta Intelligencer which
is termed “the oldest and most conservative
journal in the State,” in favor of Bingham’s
amendment. The following comments are ap
pended to the telegram:
The above despatch appeared in the Wash
ington Chronicle of this morning. The Atlanta
Intelligencer was for a long time the publicly
recognized official organ of Governor Bollock,
and is now such under cover, the proprietor be
ing seriously financially involved. It is largely
in the pay of Governor Bollock and the State
railroad, which we are prepared to prove. This
article was evidently written in the interest of
Governor Bullock. Its finger-marks are too
plain to be misunkerstood.
“It is also understood that the Macon Teee-
grath and Messenger was, and still is, under the
pay of Gov. Bullock. It is also well understood in
Georgia that several of tho pretended Demo
cratic papers are in his pay, to write violent
anti-reconstruction articles, to abuse President
Grant, a Republican Congress, and even Gov
ernor Bullock himself, when necessary for tho
accomplishment of bis purposes. These arti
cles are shown to Senators and members of tho
House to prove the disloyal spirit of the people
of Georgia, and tho necessity for further Con
gressional action.
Being unable to obtain a hearing through
the Washington press, we are obliged to trouble
yon with ihi3 pamphlet, with tho sincere hope
that you will give it a careful perusal.
J. E. Bbtast,
John Bowles.
National Hotel, Washington, 1). C., March
12, 1870.”
What say the Democratic press of Georgia to
thes statements.
Tho Georgia debate progresses slowly. It is
pretty much tho same story as was told over
Virginia and Mississippi. ’ To-day, however,
was a gala day for the colored folks. The first
colored Senator was announced to deliver the
speech prepared for him by Governor Bullock;
and tho result was an immense crowd, in which
the negro element largely predominated. How
many came ont of idle curiosity, as they would
flock to a rare show, to which admission was
free; and how many because of interest in the
future of the people of Georgia, struggling to
free themselves from the toils of a ring of cor
rupt and unprincipled meD, who steal the rev
enue and defamo the citizens of tho State, it is,
of coarse, impossible to say. I incline to the
belief, however, and think most people will
agree with me, that the vast crowd which swarm
ed in and about the Senate Chamber this morn
ing was drawn together by an idle cariosity,
and had as little thought of tho fnturo or mis
fortunes of Georgia as the March wind which
whistled without.
To return to Revels, it must be said that he
acquitted himself very well. He read his (Bul
lock's) speech from manuscript, and his deliv
ery was quite good. Tho effect of his remarks
was heightened in a singular way. Some of the
tin npon tho roof of the Senate Chamber had
become loosened, and tho high wind caused it
to rattle violently at intervals, producing tho ef
fect of theatrical thunder. When Bevels con
cluded, Morton complimented him by disparag
ing President Davis. Ho said tho Senate had
lout nothing by the absence of Jefferson Davis,
but had gained much in patriotism and loyalty.
Morton then proceeded to deliver an argument,
os the attorney of Bollock, tho character of
which may bo readily imagined. He argued
that the government of the State is merely pro
visional, and that Gen. Terry could to-day re
move Gov. Bullock or any and every State of
ficial in Georgia. He was frequently interrupt
ed by questions from Edmunds, Carpenter,
Trumbull and Conkling, which ho found it in
convenient, or inexpedient, to answer. The na
ture of these questions indicated very clearly
that the Senators named will not be found
among the supporters of Bullock when it comes
to a vote on the Biugham amendment. Mor
ton closed with a death’s head and a bloody
sketch of the present condition of Georgia,
where he said hundred’s of murders were tak
ing place, and the murderers were walking
openly in noonday. He declared that the Un
ion men of Georgia had no protection; that
there was for them no safety in life and pro
perty ; and now it was proposed to ignore these
Union men and givo power to rebels and mur
derers. With this burst of bombast and false
hood Mr. Morton collapsed. Tho Senate then
went into executive session.
The Bollock gang mustered in force, on tho
Senate floor to-day. Bryant occupied a seat in
the reporters gallery, while Bowles took np his
station in tho ladies' gallery. The Bryant party
do not “give up tho ship” by any means, and
were made encouraged by tho tenor of to-day’s
proceedings.
I noticed in the corridors, after the Senate
Chamber had been cleared to the outside world,
the negro delegation from Georgia which Gov.
Bullock had summoned to Washington. They
were full of importance and chattered together'
like so many magpies; but I don’t think Bul
lock will find them of much service in carrying
out his schemes.
From present indications it appears as if the
Georgia debate in the Senate may be protracted
for a month. Dalton.
By a nitro-glycerine explosion at Ridgefield,
New Jersey, on Friday, four men and a boy,
were literally torn to pieces.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
A Respite for Georgia—Affairs Hopeful—
Bollock's Female and Fiscal Lobby—Mr.
Stewart—Senators Spencer, Howard and
Sawyer-Land Grants and tbc Southern
Pacific Railroad—Maryland.
Washington, March 10, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger To-day
Georgia has a respite so far as CoDgress is con
cerned. The Senate adjourned over yesterday
until Monday, and the House meets to-day for
speech-making only. The situation is far from
hopeless. Each day since the debate in the
Senate commenced, some new and unexpected
champion of the Bingham amendment has come
forward. We have had conservative speeches
from men heretofore considered double-dyed
Radicals; and even two of the carpet-baggers,
who might reasonably have been expected to
support Bollock, have declared’ in favor of the
amendment.
Bat though there are grounds for hope, there
is no certainty of snccess. Bullock is lobbying
vigorously, and has brought a female lobby into
use for corrupting Senators not otherwise ap
proachable. That he has bought other Senators
with greenbacks, or, to put it in a less offensive
way, retained them a3 his attorneys, is currently
rumored and generally believed. A truly loyal
witness testified before the House Military Com
mittee, in relation to the sale of cadetships, not
long since, that he “had bought np Congress
men liko sheep.” And he was a penny specula
tor compared to Bullock with the treasury of
Georgia to draw upon, and a two year’s exten
sion of his official term at stake. No one
doubts but that there are in tho Senate, as well
as in the House, men who can be bought to ad
vocate any measure, however iniqnitons. There
is one Senatorial carpet-bagger, at all events,
who has this reputation; and it is believed if
he cannot get five thousand dollars he will take
five hundred, and if he cannot get five hundred
ho will take fifty, or five, or a bottle of whisky
or a partipa.
Senator Stewart, who opposed the Virginia bill
with might and main, and advocated liberality
toward tho people of that State, is now doing
all ho can to defeat Bingham’s amendment to
extend Bullock’s official term, and to perpetu
ate the Legislature. It might be well to en
quire what has induced the change of senti*
ment on the part of the honorable Senator from
Nevada. Has ho pocketed a “ retainer" from
Bullock? Mr. Stewart’s chief objection to the
Bingham amendment, he declared, was that it
assumed to fix a day for an election in Georgia,
an unwarranted exercise of power on the part
of Congress. Mr. Stewart finds no difficulty,
however, in advocating Mr. Wilson’s amend
ment, which postpones the election authorized
by the Constitution of Georgia, and appoints a
dag for such election in 1872. Such is Radical
consistency. Would any man who was not en
gaged as an attorney in a case stick to a client
through snch a self-stultification as this ?
There is not in tho Senate chamber a mean
er, more contemptible specimen of the genus
carpet-bagger than Senntor Spencer, a New
Yorker, whom Federal bayonets thrust into one
of Alabama’s Senatorships. He is jealons of
Warner, his colleague, who has ten times the
brains which Spencer possesses, and is, in every
respect, superior as a man. Warner is a car
pet-bagger also, from Ohio; but be is not liko
Spencer, a willing tool of tho lobbyists, and
has, on every occasion when tho Southern peo
ple have been traduced and villified, sought an
opportunity to defend them. If there is in the
Senate one carpet-bagger who deserves re-elec
tion, it is Senator Warner. Spencer feeh that
his only chance is to have Alabama farther re
constructed, and placed again under military
controL Accordingly, on Thursday ha em
braced the opportunity to defamo the people of
Alabama and tho people of Georgia at the same
time. The World’s Washington correspondent
says:
Mr. Howard had tho floor, bnt gave way to
Spencer, the carpet-bagger from Alabama, who
read an essay. This worthy began with his
hands in his breeches pockets, and looked for
all tho world like a livery-stable keeper airrng
bis Sunday clothes. The bulk of this essay—
which, like Revels’ speech, had been written for
him by an outsider—consisted of the story of
outrage and murder, which has been on the
boards this fonr years and more, ns pretext for
despotio and corrupt legislation. Spencer at
tracted very little attention, even when he in
dulged in a fling at his colleague, Warner, for
his alleged conservative tendencies. He re
marked witn happy accumen,.that, if tho peo
ple of Alabama had their way, neither he nor
ris colleague would be there.
From another source I take the following
synopsis of Spencer’s tirade. He said :
The kindness and forbearance which Con
gress had shown toward the Sontb had been as
pearls cast before swine. The majority of tho
white people of all those States still entertain
implacable hatred toward the Government, and
show tho same on every occasion. He read
from letters received by him from Alabama,
giving accounts of numerous murders of white
Railroad Company, was introduced in the House
some time ago, aud inferred to the Committee
on Public Lands. The Cowmilteo will report
favorably on the bill, but its fete in the House
is still doubtful.
The editorials of the Baltimore Gazette on
he Fifteenth Amendment, in vhich not only
are the people of Maryland callelnpon to resist
it every way possible, but the people of the
whole country appealed to put Awn, by revo
lution, if necessary, the Radical faction who
are violating the Constitution and depriving
American citizens of their rights and liberties,
have attracted much attention here, aud are un
derstood to havo been discussal in. Cabinet
meetings. After Georgia has beer handed over
to Bollock, a precedent will thus le established
which will enable the Radicals to proceed with
tho re-reconstruction of Tennesset. Maryland
or Kentucky will come next, as soc as the sun
rises and sets. And then such otbsr States as
have dared to elect Democratic officials will be
taken in hand, provided that ere this revolu
tionary programme is carried out the people do
not rise in their majesty, and, in the sacred
names of liberty and justice, sweep from power
the Radical horde who are daily forging fresh
fetters and shackles for free Americans. In a
few days I expect to havo a full statement of a
Radical plot now in progress here, and preg
nant with danger to the South, as well as to the
North. Its exposure will assist, I trust, iu open
ing tho eyes of the people to the dangers which
menace them. Dalton.
and black Unionists in that State, and nlso ex-
tracts from the Democratic press as evidence of
tho bitterness Which existed, and expressed his
surprise at the position assumed l>y his col
league. He advocated that the‘government of
Georgia should not bo wrested by Congress
from loyal hands, and given over to rebels who
were now waiting so eagerly to wreak their
vengeance.
‘The kindness and forbearance” of Congress
toward the Sonth! Is not Senator Spencer
slightly sarcastic ?
Mr. Howard followed Spencer in opposition
to the Bingham amendment; bnt made so many
and such glaring misstatements which wero
promptly contradicted and exposed by Senators
Trumbull, Edmunds and othors; and was asked
Letter from Bowden.
Bowden, Ga., March 18,1870.
Editors Macon Telegraph and Messenger :
What soy yon to a line from Carroll? From
this (at present) region of numb fingers, blue
noses and frost bitten heels. Fast the middle
of March and the ground frozen hard as a brick
every morning! Who ever heard the like—or
rather who that has been all his life a resident
of your part of the country ever knew the like?
Indeed, the birds are singing merrily this morn
ing, bnt what it is that inspires their carrol3
I can’t imagine, unless it is the hope that after
a month or so the scale of weather will tnrn,
and they are anticipating what a nice time
they will have when it does.
Since the 20th of January I am fnlly per
suaded that the thermometer has stood as low
as freezing point almost a third of the time ;
three-fourths of the mornings tho ground has
been frozen, and many times it ha3 continued
in that situation all day. Still people up here
make no great admiration at this state of affairs,
being accustomed to it, I guess. I’m not,
though, and it bothers me. I can’t step out of
doors, but I must be wrapped np head aud ears,
and it March, too, aud not only March, bnt the
middle of March, when corn should be up and
growing beantifully, and people tbinking about
planting cotton. It’s a long lane,” though,
“that has no taming,” and I am told that be
fore six months has elapsed I will bo making
equally as heavy complaints about tho hot
weather. Of the truth of this assertion I will
speak another time, I can scarcely realize its
accuracy just now.
Have any of yon, Messrs. Editors, over been
to Bowden ? I suppose not. Well, yon must
come when the Griffin and North Alabama
railroad is completed to this place; bnt not be
fore, unless you are fond of riding in a stage
drawn by four spirited horsc-s, at a “spanking"
trot, over a road remarkable, particularly for
the number of its obstructions, in the shape of
rocks larger—yes,considerably larger—than one
of your heads—I might say as largo ■+? all of
them together. Bat then I conjecture the ride
would be beneficial to one of sedentary habits,
and npon reflecting would recommend that you
make the trip soon—in May, for instance, when
we intend having a Sunday school celebration;
the ladies will be ont en masse then, you know,
and you can feast your eyes upon the beauty of
Carroll’s fair inmates.
I will say nothing concerning the “Institu
tion,” here; everybody that knows anything
abont it witnesses its excellence, and Ikoy that
know nothing, would consider mo exaggerating
the truth, were I to enumerate its various ad
vantages. To praise it wonld bo superfluous to
'-he former, and to keep myself above suspi
cion as regards my veracity, in the opinion of
the latter, I am silent.
It is unnecessary to state, that according to
my conviction, fru f t, that is, as much of it, as
peaches and plnms constitute, in this part of
the “moral vineyard" is “gone up.” What is
it that could exist in a temperature freezing
cold almost all the time, unless, forsooth, it re
mained “hugging tho (sometimes) delusive
phantom ot” fire, as I have to do ? More anon.
Respectfully, yours, E. S. W.
The Fortress Slonroe Conference.
A writer over the signature of “Delta," in the
Now York Nows, professes to givo a correct ac
count of the celebrated interview in Hampton
Roads on tho subject of peaco. After a long in
troduction, in which ho describes the condition
of tho Southern army, and gives tho views of
Mr. Davis, General Leo and others, and reflects
Somewha. Harshly npon vrhat he is pleased to
term tho “selfishness” of Mr. Stephens, the
writer proceeds with his story, thus:
Tho government at Washington bad no thought
of sending “Commissioners” pro forma; but
tho President and his Secretory, Mr. Seward,
resolved to proceed to Fortress Monroe to meet
there the gentlemen sent thither by the Con
federates, for the purpose of having a quiet and
dispassionate talk about “the situation.” This
conferenco then was entirely unofficial, so far
sb one, and by for the most important side was
concerned.
It should not be forgotten just here, despite
all that has been said and printed, that Mr.
Davis was entirely opposed to this meeting, feel-
so many questions by those gentlemen, which ing well assured that absolutely nothing of im-
he found himself unable or unwilling to answer,
that he became very uncomfortable and finally
yielded the floor to Senator Sawyer, of South
Carolina; who, to the astonishment of some of
his colleagues, came out boldly and squarely iu
favor of tho amendment. The great event yes
terday, however, was a speech from Senator
Schurz, who vigorously protested against tho
perpetuation of the Georgia Legislature and tho
extension of Governor Bullock’s official term.
He had, while speaking, the undivided attention
of the Senate and received the congratulations
of his friends when ho had concluded. It was
decidedly the best speech yet made on the
Georgia bill.
Mr. Williams addressed the Senate on the
side of right and the laws. Drake ranted and
raved about Ku-klnx, and tried to get a vote
on his amendment, but did not succeed. The
Senate then adjourned until Monday.
The leading Democratic members of tho
House determined some time since that they
would sanction no more land grants to railways.
The Pacific railroad swindle, and other 8windles
too numerous to mention, whereby large and
valuable tracts of publio land, tho property of
the whole people, went into the handsand pock
ets of private individuals, led to this determi
nation on the part of the Democracy. They
resolved that, so far as lay in their power, they
wonld prevent farther frauds of this kind. The
advocates of a Southern Pacific railway thus
found themselves confronted by opposition from
both sides of the House. Mr. Shorrod, M. O.
from Alabama, who has identified himself close
ly with the interests of the South in this mat
ter, has been vigorously at work for some time
in endeavoring to overoome this opposition on
the part of Democratic members, and has been
quite successful. He says, and truly, that the
North has bad these land grants without end,
and the South has had nothing. Is it just,
therefore, to stop now ? Should not this South
ern Pacifio railroad reoeive its proportion of the
publio lands ? Then if no more land grants sre
to be made, let it be so understood. But do not
deprive this Southern enterprise, whieh, by its
various connections, will benefit the whole
Sonth, of that aid whioh has been so freely be
stowed upon Northern railways. A bill giving
the right of way and land grants to the Southern
Trans-continental (or Memphis and El Paso)
portauce could result from it. He yielded only
whenanost strenuously appo aled to by some of the
most prominent men ubout him, foremost among
whom was Mr. Stephens; and ns there was no
love between “the chief "and his Vice-Presi
dent, he resolved to select Mr. Stephens as one
Jof the triumvirate who wore to compose this
barren embassy—taking care, however, to ap
point as the two others his warmest and most
trusted friends, Senator Hunter and Judge
Campbell. General Grant passed the three
gentlemen through hie lines, and they proceeded
to Fortress Monroe without unnecessary delay.
They were received with courtesy by all officials
with whom they met, and especially by Mr.
Lincoln and bis Secretary of State; but at the
very outset Mr. Lincoln distinctly informed
them that it was not his purpose to treat with
them.
He calmly discussed the state of affairs, re
ferred to the tremendous force which he held in
the hollow of his hand, and spoke of the inex
haustible supplies in his command in every sec
tion of the country; said that the “game was
almost played out, and that the one thing that
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the Confederacy “so-called” must do just then,
was 8imply«to—submit! He promised to seenro
for them the best terms possible. As to slavery,
that was dead! There was Borne allusion to the
settlement of the “mixed question" by the Su
preme Court, and to the probable contingency
that doubtless years would elapse ere the mat
ter wonld bo definitely deoided, bnt this was,
perhaps, a mere placebo. It is reported that
whisky and water was imbibed freely, and that
Mr. Lincoln illustrated his views by an anecdote
or two. Mr. SewaTd was especial facetious. He
met his old confrere, Mr. Hunter, with great
apparent—it may be real—cordiality, smiled
upon him with genial complacency, and said,
“God bless you, Hunter, my old friend, I am
very sorry for you. Just ground the weapons
of your rebellion, and we will do the best we
oan for you. No doubt a few of you will be
hung”—and here he almost melted into tears—
“but that is unavoidable. I entertain a very
sincere regard for you, and some of my old
friends associated with you, in this stupendous
folly, but-it must be confessed you have thrust
yourselves into a very bad predicament, really
very bad. Let us take another drink I”
And thus the conference dosed.
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City of Brunswick and the Avery iris-
patch.
We see in the Brunswick Seaport Appeal, of
last Friday, that an indignation meeting was
held at MoConn’s Hall in that dty last Wednes
day evening. Mr. P. M. Nightengale presided,
and T. F. Smith aoted as secretary, and at which
the following paper from Mayor Houston, In
relation to the recent tronbles on the Bruns
wick and Albany railroad was read and endorsed
as a correct statement:
My attention having been called to various
telegraphic reports, which have appeared in the
papirs concerning a disturbance which is said
to have taken place on the Brunswick and Alba-
bany railroad on the 10th inst, I deem it. as I
was Mayor of the city at the time, an act of
justice to the citizens of Brunswick and the
people of the entire State, to make tho follow
ing statement of facts:
The matter did not, in truth, amount to a dis
turbance. Thero was no act of violence com
mitted, nor even a serious threat of personal
violence to any one. The employees of the road
only desired Mr. Conant, the chief contractor,
to restore Mr. Babcock, the former superintend
ent, who had, as they claimed, been unjustly
discharged, or pay the amounts then due them
for their services. Mr. Gonant said to them that
he could not, under the circumstances, restore
Mr. Babcock, and such being the case, that if
they would all go down to Brunswick that even
ing, they should all be paid off on the morrow.
There was no hostile demonstrations of any
kind whatever ‘made, and I am satisfied from
the information given me, that there was no de
sire or intention on the part of any one to in
jure or molest Mr. Avery, Conant or any one
of them. All came down together, and seemed
to be on very good terms—no one dreaming of
any injury being done to any person, or to the
property of the company. It was suggested to
me next morning, that the disaffected might
possibly endeavor to prevent the train from go
ing np the road, and I immediately went among
them for the purpose of ascertaining if such
was the case, and I was informed and assured,
that they had no intention, whatever, of doing
so.
A few of them, who had been drinking, were
somewhat boisterous, and, while excited, may
have remarked that if they were not paid that
day, according to promise, they wonld take pos
session of the road until they were paid. This,
as far as I can learn, was. the only extremity
proposed, and that only by a few drunken men,
and that only in the event they should not be
paid. No threats of personal violence were
made, and no violence was intended to be offered
to any one. Mr. Avery, it seems, left the same
night, and before the men conld be paid off
next day, and it was simply the wicked man flee
ing and no one pursuing. No disturbance had
taken place when ho left, and he knew that it
could take only place upon a failure to pay the
men as promised. The men were paid as prom
ised and tho whole matter ended, being nothing
more, indeed, than a tempest in a tea-pot.
Neither Mr. Avery, Conant, Kimball or Halbert
called npon me, or any of the civil authorities,
as I am informed, forqprotection for themselves
or the property of the company, and for the
simple reason that none was needed.
As soon, however, as Mr. Avery conld reach
a Station, he telegraphed the news all over the
country, that a serious difficulty had occurred
on the line of the Road, and that it was the
work of designing men in order to prevent the
completion of fifty miles of the Road by the
18th instant, so that the endorsement of tho
State might be forfeited. So far from this be
ing true, these men expressed their willingness
and readiness, time after time, to return and
work without pay until the fifty miles wero
completed, if there was any danger of losing
the endorsement of the State, and not only
they, but every citizen of Brunswick would
have gone up, if it had been necessary.
The above is a true statement of the facts as
they occurred. James Houston,
Ex-Mayor City Brunswick.
The meeting also passed resolutions exonor
ating Mr. Conant, and complimentary to Mr.
Geo. H. Hazelhurst, for services rendered in
correcting the false impressions created by the
dispatches of Avery. They also solicited a
statement from Babcock, which is published in
the Appeal, as follows:
Beunswick, Ga., March 17, 1870.
Gentlemen :—At your meeting of last even
ing, I was called npon to give to the pablio a
statement of facts in relation to the disgraceful
farce that has been enacting here during the
past few weeks, coupled with a request to re
duce them to writing. Under date of January
17th, I received a letter from J. Edwin Conant
& Co., stating that “CoL E. Halbert had been
appointed General Superintendent of the Bruns
wick and Albany Railroad. That this appoint
ment would in no way interfere with my con
tract for the first sixty miles. That the appoint
ment was made from motives of policy, and not
from any disregard to me.” Shortly thereafter
Col. E. Hulbert made bis appearance in our
office. He was courteously received, and every
facility offered to him to go over the work and
inspect it in every detail.
WHAT HE FOUND.
As perfect an organization in every depart
ment as ever existed—tracklayers, trestle build
ers, culvert builders, blacksmiths, carpenters,
train hands, etc., etc. All is peace and quiet
ness—the work going on with unexampled ra
pidity, and with the most perfect determination
on the part of all to save the State aid by com
pleting the fifty miles. It is necessary to lay be
fore you the exact state of things, that following
step by step the track of Messrs. Avery & Hul
bert, their plans and projeots may be under
stood, and the molo-like way they undermined
this organization. .
WHAT HE DID.
Bis first step was to totally ignore Capt. N.
S. Finney in his capacity as Financial Agent
This gentlomen at once telegraphed his resigna
tion to New York, which was refused. His next
step was to gradually introduce his own men
from Atlanta, crowding ont the employees who
had worked for months without pay. At this
stage of affairs Wm. L. Avery made his appear
ance, and it soon became evident from the fre
quent consultations and actions that followed,
that some hidden meaning lay beneath all this.
The work was going on, and on February loth,
a sufficient sum of money was received from
Atlanta to pay the men for their January labor.
As soon as the men had received this install
ment, tho screws of indignity was put on with
ten fold force, and I was appealed to by the
foreman on tho road for protection. Avery and
Hulbert were now determined to bring things to
a focus, and tho engineer on the construction
train beyond tho Satilla was discharged, and a
drunken fellow put in his place, after one of the
most childish scones ever enaoted by two men
in the piny woods. I agreed to accept Wm. L.
Avery’s proposition—to bo paid in fall for 60
miles instead of CO miles, provided I would re
tire from the road.
THE MOTIVES.
A scheme had been gotten up in Atlanta to
effect a sale of tho Opera House to the State—
this being effected, a portion of the mouey was
to be pluced to tho credit of the B. & A. R. B.
The Governor—as he had dismissed Halbert
from tho State Road and as Halbert was aspir
ing to a seat in the U. S. Senate, it was found
convenient to remove him from Atlanta for a
brief period of time. And as it was necessary
to rivet the yoke of Radicalism on the necks of
Georgians—so Wm. L. Avery planned to come
to Brunswick, and, by insult added to insult, to
induce a mob aud riot ou the railroad—seized
the moment of Mr. Conant’s arrival, (to visit
the work) to bring it to a head, and thereby be
enabled to telegraph for troops and forward to
Washington, his never to be forgotten telegram.
I ask yon, gentlemen, for what purpose a Gen
eral Superintendent is elected to any railroad ?
Is it for a road nnder construction or for a com
pleted road?
Was the work being pushed on with vigor or
not?
Why this systematic straggle to induce an up
rising of the men ? Why did Avery go amongst
the colored men and ask whioh side they would
espouse if trouble arose ?
Why did Avery go to Atlanta and borrow 120
men frenranother road for fifteen days?
Why this outcry that Savannah money is at
the bottom of it? Why the farce of placing
troops at the various bridges, thus pretending
that Savannah is about to send inoendiaries to
burn them ?
Gentlemen, I am a Northern man, without on
dollar of interest in the South. I am a Repub
lican by politics, but I claim to cany that uni
versal passport that thus far has carried me with
honor in all parts of the South, and will ever
carry any one who is entitled to it—an honest
gentleman.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Feed. A. Babcock,
Late Sup’t Construction B. & A. R. R.
The same number of the Appeal also prints
the following card, in reference to the Avery
dispatch:
A GABD.
Knowing that the leading statements contain
ed in a telegram, dated Savannah, Ga., March
13th, and signed by one W. L. Avery (from
this place) and forwarded to certain Senators in
the United States Congress, are utterly false
and of most mischievous tendency, we deem it
our duty to give said statements a prompt and
plain denial. And for the benefit of our friends
at a distance, we make this denial above our
own proper signatures.
No man is proscribed for bis political opinions.
No man’s life or property is endangered. Our
community is in a state of peace and quiet
The undersigned have all removed South,
and settled here since the close of the late war,
and represent all shades of political opinion.
F. A. Beusteb,
Late of Springfield, Mass.
J. R. Cook, late of Mass.
A. C. Babtuett, late of Mass.
S. H. Cook, “
0. A. Babtlett, “
Wabben A. Fuller, “
F. M. Eames, • “
A. W. Esleok, “
J. F. Rowe, “
F. A. Hamilton, New York.
N. O. Smith, “
A. W. Habwood, Vermont.
The Georgia Bill—The Bullock Wing
Dissatisfied — YYliut the President
Said to Them.
A delegation of colored men from Georgia,
comprising members of the Legislature, the
Labor Convention, and the late Constitutional
Convention, all adherents of the Bullock whig
of the Republican party in that State, had an
interview with the President to-day, and rep
resented that they were dissatisfied with the
way in which their case had been stated to the
President, and had come themselves to ex
press their views and desires. They had come
to protest against the adoption of the Bing
ham amendment to the Georgia bill. It
would result in placing their race in the same
place they were before the war. The rebels
would rule the State, and the colored man
would have no justice. They hoped the
amendment would be defeated in the Senate,
and if not, that the President would veto the
bill.
The President replied: “ I have not had
the bill you speak of yet presented to my con
sideration by Congress. It passed the House,
I understand, by a large majority, a number
of Republicans voting lor it, and the amend
ment you speak of was presented, I learn,
by a Republican member. I feel sure that
the larger number of the Republican mem
bers of the House who voted for it were
not aware of the purport of the amend
ment alluded to by you as you regard it The
bill is now with the Senate. When it is pre
sented for my consideration I shall give it
that attention I always try to give every sub
ject that concerns the. welfare of my country.
I am exceedingly anxious to havo Georgia ad
mitted as a State, and do not propose to throw
any unnecessary obstacle in the way. As for
equal rights and franchises before the law,
they will be guaranteed in a very few days by
a constitutional provision, and 1 feel warrant
ed in assuring you will be carried out to the
letter of the law, so far as the Executive is
concerned.”
The delegation retired, some of them pleas
ed with the President’s answer, while a few
were disposed to think it rather non-commit
tal.— Washington dispatch to Richmond Dis
patch, 11th.
South Carolina Editorial Conference.
The Conference of Conservative editors in
South Carolina, last Wednesday, was very
folly attended, and after a frank interchange
of views the following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
(1.) Resolved unanimously, .That this Con
ference recognizes the legal right of all the
citizens of the State, irrespective of color, to
suffrage.
(2.) That this Conference recognizes the
legal right of all the citizens of the State, ir
respective of color or previous condition, to
office, subject alone to personal qualification
and fitness.
(3.) That in the judgment of this Confer
ence, a Convention of the people of the State,
opposed to Radicalism, and in favor of gooc,
ana honest government, should he held in the
city ot Columbia, at some convenient time for
tho purpose of nominating a State ticket,
which, while assuring equal and exact justioe
to all, will afford some degree ef security,
prosperity and good government.
(4.) That this Conference respectfully sug
gests to tho people of tho State Wednesday,
the 15th day of June, ensuing, as a suitable
time for the holding of said Convention.
Tbe Funding Bill,
The Funding and Banking bill, introduced
by Senator Sherman, provides tbe following:
1. That $400,000,000 five per cent, ten-twenty
year bonds be issued at par for gold, or for pres
ent five-twenty year bonds. The gold to be
used for redemption of five-twenty bonds.
2. That $400,000,000fonranda half percent,
fifteen-thirty year bonds be issued at par for
gold or any Government debt bearing a higher
rate of coin interest.
3. That an unlimited amount of fonr per cent,
twenty-forty year bonds be issued, as the Sec
retary of the Treasury may decide necessary,
in exchange for any indebtedness of the United
States, including legal tenders.
4. Total exemption from taxes.
5. That coupons be paid abroad as well a3
here.
6. Agents to be appointed here and abroad
to sell and negotiate the loan, and not more
than 1 per cent, to be paid them.
7. Reserve $160,000,000 each year out of im
port duties for payment of interest and reduc
tion of principal of pablio debt Bonds now
or hereafter to be held by the Treasurer in the
“Sinking Fund” and “Special Fund,” Khali be
cancelled and destroyed.
8. After October, 1, 1870, no other bonds
than those under this act shall be received as
security for National Bank circulation; and
two-thirds of such bonds must be the four per
cent issue. Existing National Banks must
withdraw their securities and substitute bonds
as above.
9. No bank can reoeive over eighty per cent
of the par value of bonds deposited.
10. Any bank oan pay legal tender notes to
any amount to the Treasurer, and receive cir
culating notes therefor, based on the four per
oent bonds, without limitation, and laid legal
tender notes shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Tmcua are 2,500,000 bushels of wheat stored
on the upper Mississippi, and it is said that
about the same quantity remains in the hands
of the farmers in that section.
Senate Debate on Thursday.
The World reports tbe Senate debate ea
Thursday upon the Georgia Bill as follows :
The galleries of the Senate to-day presented
a very marked contrast to the throng and ex
citement of yesterday, on the occasion of a mu-
lotto reading a speech prepared for him. There
were few there to appreciate some of the keen*
t and most effective work ever doi-« in the
mber. Mr. Howard had the floor, bnt gave
way to Spencer, the carpet-bagger from Alaba
ma, who read an essay. This worthy began
with his hand in his breeches pockets, end look
ed for all the world like a livery-stable keeper
airing his Sunday clothes. The bulk ot thl« es
say—which, like Revels's speech, had been
written for him by an outsider—consisted of the '
old story outrage and murder, which has been on
the boards this four years aud more, as pretext
for despotio and corrupt legislation. Spencer at
tracted very little attention, even whan he in-
dnlged in a fling at his colleague, Warner, for
his alleged conservative tendencies. He re
marked, with happy acumen, that, if the people
of Alabama had their way, neither be or his
colleague would be there. Mr. Howard came
next, making the best of a bad case, bnt he was
not left long unmolested. First came Ml Car-
penter with a damaging interruption, then Sen*
ator Thurman, then Mr. Pomeroy, then Ur.
Edmunds, who was pitiless, then Carl Sohnrs,
with one of those quiet, well bred, pregnant
interrogatories which are equal to some men’s
speeches, then Mr. Howe, then Mr. Trumbull,
and lastly Mr. Morrill, of Vermont, all of these—
save,perhaps,Mr. Pomeroy—indicating that they
utterly dissented from the Bullock line of poli
tics. Mr. Trumfiull made a capital exposition of
the Georgia constitution. Mr. Howard is usually
frank and direct in his style of argument, an
nouncing boldly his conclusions and policy, but
to-day he seemed to feel that the moral sense of
the Senate and the country must be against the
design of the Bullock party, to extend their own
official terms; aud accordingly, when pressed
upon the point as to what ho believed to be
their purposes in this regard, he resorted to
quibbling aud evasion. The indications to-day
were decidedly healthy, all tending to show that
the Bullock’s empire in the Senate is gone.
Sawyer, of South Carolina, followed with an
essay, in which he declared his purpose to sus
tain the Bingham amendment.
' Some newspaper men, of both parties, notic
ed to-day an incident going to show a game of
the Bollock faction, to use a female lobby in
connection with the Georgia business, and the
comment was made that these proceedings had
better be conducted with more regard to appear
ances.
Whittemore Canvassing.
Correspondence of the World. ]
Columbia, S. 0., March 15.
Whittemore is giving his party trouble.
Others, ambitious of Congressional honors
and emoluments, want his place and its pick
ings, and are greatly annoyed by his persist
ence in running again. But he seems equally
unaffected by the denunciations of the honest
white population, and the still more cruel an
athemas of his former comrades of the scala
wag school. He is now addressing the blacks
at every prominent point in the First District,
and makes good headway. A leading negro
who had just come from one of the meetings
addressed by Whittemore, was heard repeat
ing to others the Congressman’s vindication:
“Why, all de fuss i3 about nuffia. Mr. Whit
temore only sell one ship, which the buckra
want If de buckra git um, we no git um.
Mr. Whittemore too sharp for dat; he sells
de ships quick for five hundred dollars and
build two schools wid de money, and de bal
ance of de trade he got in he pocket to pay
us forde loss time when we vote for him
to go back a§in. Dar now, what you cill dafc
but a fedder in ho cap and money in we pock
et”
The postmaster at Sumter has informed
the Postmaster-General that Whittemore con
tinues to frank his private letters as, “M. 0.,”
and that letters have been received at Sumter
for Whittemore, under date of Darlington,
March 7, so franked, and forwarded from the
Darlington office without stamp, although the
postmaster there knows that he has no longer
the right to use the franking privilege. The
Sumter paper announces this under tho cap
tion of “petty stealing.”
A Perfect Brick—A Bar or Silver
Weighing One TJhousand and Thir
teen Ounces.
From the St. Joseph {Ho.') Gazette.;j
We were yesterday shown, at the State Na
tional Rank in this city, a “brick” of solid
silver, weighing 1,013 ounces, 965 fine. It
was out o’ the Vermillion and Burke ledges,
in the Meadow Valley district (now called the
Ely district,) Lincoln county, Nevada, 380
miles south of Salt Lake City, and 140 miles
north of Callville, the head of navigation on
the Colorado river. The brick is a perfect
monster in size and weight. It will be sent
by the bank to New Yorkfor assay. It came
through from Nevada by express.
Yesterday Mr. J. Vermillion, formerly an
old resident of Buchanan county, and now
one of the proprietors of the Vermillion and
Burke ledges, arrived in the city direct from
Nevada. He represents the mines in that
section of country as veiy prosperous and be
ing worked rapidly. The ledges are all well
defined, from 6 to 14 feet wide, and pay as
high as $8,000 per ton. Pioch, the principal
town in the Meadow Valley district, contains
about 450 men and half a dozen women, and
is rapidly improving, although it is safely to
bo presumed that most of the increase in the
population comes from immigration. Messrs.
Ely & Reynolds have five stamp mills working
ten tons of ore per day, and the Meadow VaP
ley Company will have some twenty stamp
mills at work in the course of the next six
weeks, while a number of others are en route
to the district and will soon be in operation.
Black Shaft, on Pioch Ledge, worked by the
Meadow Valley Company, has a shaft 40 feet
deep, pays $8,000 per ton, and is guarded '
day and night to keep the specimens from be
ing carried off. ' •“
Tbe San Domingo Treaty.
A great effort is being made by tho President
to save the San Domingo Treaty. On Thursday
he held a conference in the President’s room in
the Capitol with Senators Conkling, Morton,
Stewart, Sawyer, Chandler, Cameron and Wil
son (Sumner loft ont) General Babcock the
negotiator of the Treaty was also present, with
maps and documentary evidence. The dispatch
says:
The interview was mainly of a purely conver
sational character, and it is understood that the
President himself represented the advisability
of ratifying the treaty in the form in whioh it
was made. . Very little opposition was manifest
ed on the part of those present, and, indeed,
there appeared to be a feeling generally favora
ble to the desired action, after General Bab
cock’s statements had been heflftd, and the pa
pers presented by him examined. It is very
probable that when Mr. Sumner, as
of the oommittee, presents the sdverse report
authorized by a majority vote of the members,
a motion will be made in the Senate to recom
mit the report so as to permit of the presenta
tion of further facts and increase the chances of
final action of a favozable character.
As a treaty requires two thirds of the Senate,
the result is very doubtful. Probably no meas
ure of equal importance as affecting tbe future
career of the Republic is before Congress.
The Baltimore Sun notices the _ __
through that city, of a drove of turkeys, 485in
number. They had traveled all the way from
Ohio at the rate of twenty-five miles a day, end
were bound for tiae tobacco plantations of Oca-
aectiottf.
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